Events on Tuesday, August 19
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- Jaguar Love
- @ Southpaw
- On records like Crimes and Burn, Piano Island, Burn (to say nothing of their criminally underrated Neon Blonde side-project), the Blood... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Walkmen
- @ The Bowery Ballroom
- Few bands boast the closeness of the Walkmen: born out of the Recoys and Jonathan Fire*Eater, the five-piece coalition has existed... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Chris Dave w/ Mos Def
- @ Highline Ballroom
- Jazz-obsessed drummer Chris "Daddy" Dave has a way of humanizing the most outrageous rhythms — a talent that has made him... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends
- @ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row
- The strange but affecting comedy What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends captures the awkward reality of relationships through... View details »
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- Art
- J.M.W. Turner
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Featuring powerful works such as 1794's Tintern Abbey and 1835's The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Metropolitan... View details »
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- Sixty Six
- @ Various locations
- It's the summer of '66 and all of England is agog about the World Cup. That is, all except for 12-year-old,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- NY International Fringe Festival
- @ Various locations
- With more than 200 shows crammed into roughly two weeks, the Fringe is a feat of endurance. Urinetown, 21 Dog Years,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- South Pacific
- @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center
- Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater... View details »
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- Lindsay Anderson
- @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
- The bedrock figure of Britain's influential Free Cinema movement, director Lindsay Anderson clinched his fame with the anarchic end to If.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Vice Photo Show
- @ Vice Gallery
- In addition to its publications on the newstands and booksheves, its web TV channel, and record label — Vice now unleashes... View details »
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- Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger
- @ American Folk Art Museum
- The American Folk Art Museum is home to the world's largest collection of work by Henry Darger, the Chicago recluse and... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- @ Paragraph
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Afrika Bambaataa
- @ APT
- Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance... View details »
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- More Flavor: Discussion
- Comic Book Club
- @ The People's Improv Theater
- Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,... View details »
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- Louise Bourgeois
- @ Guggenheim Museum
- After persevering through relative obscurity during the first half of her career, artist Louise Bourgeois has been at the forefront of... View details »
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- Brideshead Revisited
- @ Various locations
- For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format.... View details »
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- @ Lyceum Theatre
- This meta-musical about four friends trying to write a musical about four friends trying to write a musical is at once... View details »
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- Jeff Koons on the Roof
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- It's difficult to reconcile the Jeff Koons of topiary puppies, pool floaties, ornamental hearts, and oversized choo-choo trains with the man... View details »
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- Baghead
- @ Various locations
- Directed and written by mumblecore hotshots (if such a concept isn't a total oxymoron) the Duplass Brothers, Baghead is a meta-movie... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fela!
- @ 37 Arts
- Choreographer Bill T. Jones' directorial foray into the life of Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Kuti hits all the right... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
- Absinthe
- @ Spiegelworld
- This is your last week to catch the nouveau vaudevillians of Absinthe. Jammed in between the East River and uh, a... View details »
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- Elegy
- @ Various locations
- Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip... View details »
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- More Flavor: Spectacle
- The Science Barge
- @ Riverside Park South
- Take a 45-minute guided tour of the city's only functioning, large-scale sustainable farm: the Science Barge boasts a vegetable garden grown... View details »
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- More Flavor: Sports
- 2008 US Open Qualifying Tournament
- @ USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center
- Cash-strapped tennis fans can catch the first week of the US Open for free. Over the course of four days, hundreds... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Twelve Ophelias
- @ McCarren Park Pool
- Twelve Ophelias picks up where Hamlet left off: Ophelia re-emerges from the water after her suicidal drowning and sets off to... View details »
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- Artist as Publisher
- @ Center for Book Arts
- In response to art-world elitism, or simply for lack of a better option, many young, independently minded artists have taken to... View details »
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- I Won't Grow Up
- @ Cheim & Read
- The solidly enjoyable summer show I Won't Grow Up presents on-the-radar artists at their most childlike. Mark Fox's video Nutzilla catches... View details »
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- Tell No One
- @ Various locations
- Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (Francois Cluzet) has... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hair
- @ Delacorte Theater
- As you sing Hair's infectious songs on your way out of Central Park, you'll encounter other ecstatic fans. Impromptu dance sessions... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- @ Minetta Lane Theatre
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fashion
- Superheroes
- @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- In association with Giorgio Armani and Vogue's Anna Wintour, curator Harold Koda of the Costume Institute investigates the distinction between costume... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- The Order of Myths
- @ IFC Center
- Taking its title from the name of an actual Mobile, Alabama, secret society, The Order of Myths eyeballs that town's still-racially... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- @ Imperial Theatre
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- Bottle Shock
- @ Various locations
- In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including... View details »
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- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- @ Various locations
- Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Boeing Boeing
- @ Longacre Theatre
- It takes an exceptional director and a brilliant cast to transform a frivolous film with an old-fashioned plot into a satisfying... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Eminent Domain
- @ LIVE from the NYPL
- When, in 2007, the New York City government considered requiring permits to photograph in public, officials were met with cries of... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Olafur Eliasson: Waterfalls
- @ Various locations in the East River
- Known for his stunning meteorological installations at the Tate Modern and, more recently, MoMA and P.S.1, Danish-born artist Olafur Eliasson returns... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- American Teen
- @ Various locations
- The tired teen-movie genre is re-envisioned by Nanette Burstein in her documentary American Teen, which depicts the experiences of five high-school... View details »
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- Tickle the Shitstem
- @ Zach Feuer Gallery
- Phoebe Washburn's installation for the 2008 Whitney Biennial was a Gatorade-fueled nursery of raw two-by-fours. Its title — While Enhancing a... View details »
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- The Wackness
- @ Various locations
- The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Slavic Soul Party!
- @ Barbès
- While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- In the Heights
- @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
- There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Recent Photography and Video from Japan
- @ International Center of Photography
- Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan features 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose funny, evocative, and startling images penetrate Japanese... View details »
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- Performing Arts
- Hot!
- @ Dixon Place
- Now in its 17th year, Hot! is a summer-long exploration of queer issues through the performing arts, including dance, theatre, burlesque,... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Tully Tini @ AT65
- @ Lincoln Center
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In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink? Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
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